Editing Request for Comments (section)

===Streams===
There are five streams of RFCs: [[IETF]], [[Internet Research Task Force|IRTF]], [[Internet Architecture Board|IAB]], ''independent submission'',<ref name=IndepSub>{{cite web
|url=https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/independent/
|title= Independent Submissions
|access-date= January 5, 2018
|publisher= RFC Editor
}}</ref> and ''Editorial''. Only the IETF creates BCPs and RFCs on the standards track. The IAB publishes informational documents relating to policy or architecture. The IRTF publishes the results of research, either as informational documents or as experiments. Independent submissions are published
at the discretion of the Independent Submissions Editor. Non-IETF documents are reviewed by the [[IESG]] for conflicts with IETF work. IRTF and ''independent&nbsp;'' RFCs generally contain relevant information or experiments for the Internet at large not in conflict with IETF work. compare {{IETF RFC|4846|5742|5744|leadout=and|link=no}}.<ref name="RFC4846">{{cite IETF
|title=Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor
|rfc=4846
|last1=Klensin
|first1=John
|last2=Thaler
|first2=David
|date=July 2007
|publisher=[[Internet Architecture Board|IAB]]}}></ref><ref name="RFC5742">{{cite IETF
|title=IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions
|rfc=5742
|last1=Alvestrand
|first1=Harald
|last2=Housley
|first2=Russ
|date=December 2009
|publisher=[[IETF]]}}</ref> The Editorial Stream is used to effect editorial policy changes across the RFC series (see {{IETF RFC|9280|link=no}}).<ref name="rfc9280"/>